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Delivery Self Attachment [VHS]

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This video shows two sets of babies--those left on their mothers' bellies for at least one hour after birth and those who were immediately removed for "routine" cleanup. Among the two groups, you see a non-medicated birth, a medicated birth, and a c-section. It's amazing to watch the non-medicated baby left to its own crawl up the mother and latch on to the breast. Follow this amazing acheivement with babies (like the c-section one) who barely move and lie limp on the mothers stomach. This short video (6 minutes) is truly amazing and a must-see for anyone working with newborns.

I viewed this video in a hypnobirthing class and was amazed at the fact that we are born with the drive to seek food. This video shows determination in a newborn that the average person could never believe is possible. The tape shows the difference between a newborn who is drugged and not drugged. The non-drugged newborn actually crawls to the breast for food.This tape is anazing.

I was a natural childbirth instructor and this was one of my favorite videos for class. It clearly shows how strong and busy a newborn is if he or she is allowed to bond with mom right away... My students were always amazed at this little video.

We were shown clips from this video in our childbirth class.

What coverage we normally see of newborns in our society--that is: dazed, unseeing, and semi-conscious little parcels--now seems completely misleading compared to "normal" babies: unmedicated ones who are not separated from their mothers after birth.

Those babies crawled (or pushed themselves with their feet) up their mothers' abdomens looking much like little kittens or puppies, found the breast, and latched on properly all by themselves!

(Meanwhile, the medicated babies looked like they *wanted* the breast, but couldn't manage to get over to it.)

If you're looking for a detailed research findings video, this is probably not it. It's clearly made for showing to students simply as a comparison, albeit a spectacular comparison. (From what I hear the whole video is quite short, too.)

I hope we manage an unmedicated birth so we can have an alert baby like the ones shown here! Not that I'll make it crawl to nurse, of course. ;)

This very short video (6 minutes) seems to show more text than film - not what I expected. The parts of the film showing the baby's self attachment (to its mother's breast after birth) are extremely short, i.e. over in seconds. This is disappointing considering that in reality the proces can take up to 50 minutes. The part showing a medicated baby (during labour) not self attaching after birth is a little longer but still over in less than a minute. The statistic of the study are not clearly presented.